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Venice, Italy
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BM 15th cent.: V, p. 531 (IA.24066)
Folger bibliographic ID: 89887
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries: B-1262
Folger call number: INC B1122
Folger holdings ID: 92159
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quarto
General notes
Imprint from colophon (leaf [con]3v); privilege is dated 13 Nov. 1496 Signatures: (1-3)⁴, (5-8)⁸, a-z⁸, &⁸, [con]⁴ Woodcut capitals and capital spaces with guide letters Includes register
Item information about Folger INC B1122
Lacks last leaf with register and printer's device; some worming, affecting text, in several quires; margins have been trimmed, affecting manuscript notes. Manuscript notes and markings in brown ink in the margins, with manicules, brackets and some underlining; manuscript numbering of leaves starting on leaf signed 2, reading 1-142, 142-205; corresponding numbering added in table of contents on title page verso. Fragments of later printed waste used as spine reinforcement; repaired; rebound. Several ownership inscriptions on title page (below a handwritten distich), reading "Don Mercurius Ricci[us]", and "Mihi do[n] Andre[a]e Vaca[n]tj vendit[us] post ei[us] m[ort]e[m] [?] ... p[er] Ioseph ricciu[m]"; autograph of FreÌdeÌric Verachter at foot of t.p.; bookplate of W.T. Smedley; purchased in 1924
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former owner: Riccius, Mercurius
former owner: Vacantus, Andreas
former owner: Verachter, Frédéric Joseph Corneille, 1797-1870
former owner: Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934
printer: Tacuino, Giovanni, active 1492-1541